The next change leaves everyone reaching for credentials, guessing what is running, and asking whose problem it is after the fact.
11 MANAGED HOSTING
Managed Hosting for Work That Has to Stay Up
Who owns the pager when this dies? JFDI begins by understanding the environment before anyone talks about moving it.
The read is JFDI's assessment: a short working review of what is running, who can change it, what must come back first, and what has actually been tested.
01 WHAT WE ASSESS
A hosting login is capacity. It is not an operating plan. When the person who understands a change is also the person who has to notice it, investigate it, and decide what to do next, the environment is unmanaged whether the invoice says otherwise.
Most handovers go wrong before the first migration. Nobody names the application owner, the server owner, the access authority, or what happens when an untested copy is all that remains.
The person who answers for the outage is usually not the person who set the environment up.
The pager question gets answered during the outage, or it gets answered now.
02 WORKING GUIDANCE
Four questions that make hosting manageable
| Question | What needs to be clear |
|---|---|
| Who owns the application? | Who understands the application, content, dependencies, and normal changes? |
| Who operates the environment? | Who monitors, applies updates to, secures, and investigates the agreed servers or services? |
| Who can approve access and changes? | Who has authority to grant access, change settings, or approve a migration? |
| Who owns recovery? | Who can authorise a restore, and what evidence shows the recovery path works? |
If those answers are unclear, the assessment is the place to make them explicit.
04 THE OFFER
JFDI operates the agreed environment. The first step is an assessment, not a wholesale migration or a generic hosting package.
- 01
Assess — what is running, who operates it, and who can approve a change.
- 02
Record — the agreement in writing: what JFDI operates, what you retain, and who holds change authority.
- 03
Decide — stabilise, keep, or move. A migration is not assumed.
05 THE AGREEMENT
Before work begins on the live environment, JFDI records the assessment: what we operate, what the client retains, and who can change what. Applications, content, end users, and third-party software services (SaaS) remain with the client unless the scope says otherwise. Untested copies belong in a continuity assessment.
A named agreed environment, a written decision about access, and an environment that has an accountable operator before the next urgent issue arrives.
06 WHAT IS INCLUDED
The work, in plain terms.
- Operate the agreed environment
- Agreed monitoring, applying updates, securing the environment, and controlling access
- Migration when it is the right next move
- A backup and recovery path
- Urgent response on environments JFDI operates
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07 QUESTIONS
Ask before you decide.
Do we have to move to JFDI hosting?+
No. The assessment establishes what is running, who operates it, and who can change it. A migration is one possible outcome, not the assumption.
What does JFDI actually operate?+
The agreed environment: monitoring, applying updates, securing the environment, and controlling access, on the servers or services named in the assessment. Applications, content, end users, and third-party software services (SaaS) remain with the client unless separately agreed.
What happens if something breaks outside business hours?+
On environments JFDI operates, urgent issues get a response. This page does not publish response minutes or promise round-the-clock coverage.
What do we get from the call?+
We identify the system or operating responsibility that matters first, who can make the next decision, and what evidence is missing. If the conversation produces a written gap list, JFDI sends it afterwards.
08 NEXT STEP